Word: austine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leafy Poultice. There is good reason to believe that there are many more potentially valuable drugs where these came from. Says Dr. Alfred Taylor of the University of Texas' Austin campus: "In plants we have more compounds than the chemists could synthesize in 1,000 years. And as a rule, the naturally occurring compounds are less likely to be poisonous than the synthetic, because they've developed in association with life." Cancer Researcher Taylor's team is testing plant extracts against cancer in mice, reports "more hopeful results with the natural compounds than with synthetics...
...Austin B. Mason prizes were granted to Robert H. Stewart 3G and Paul G.M.J. Van Ael 1G for outstanding work in the field of soil mechanics. Michael D. West '59 received the Lewis Curtis Prize for excellence in Latin...
Many investors believe that splits bring higher prices, but this is not necessarily so. To push up the price the company must also raise the dividend. After a two-year study, C. Austin Barker reported in the Harvard Business Review that 75 companies that split their stock and raised the dividend quickly gained 18% in price over and above the rise in the market, held the gain six months later. But a group of 13 companies that split their stock without raising dividends temporarily gained only 5% in price, dropped back 8% below the market level...
Even the greatly reduced string ensemble in Bach's C-minor concerto (no. 1) for violin and oboe often failed to express the grace and flexibility in this lovely music. The soloists were the winners of the orchestra's concerto contest: John Austin played a rather discreet fiddle, which was occasionally overwhelmed by the powerful oboe playing of Carl Schlaikjer; nevertheless both parts were very well done. The other competition winned was E. S. Stewart, whose Variations on a Melody won the contest for undergraduate compositions...
...School Forum on "Unifying the Christian Church" will be held this Friday at 8 p.m. in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall. Douglas Horton, Dean of the Divinity School and a Congregationalist, Julian V. Casserly of the General Theological Geminary, an Anglican, and Gustave Weigel S.J., a Catholic, will discuss the problem...